One of the lasting damages to modern culture that TV started and the algorithmic internet perfected is how a staggering majority of people waste hours of invaluable, irretreivable human life mindlessly, passively watching utterly worthless dogshit just because it's there
it’s difficult to take lectures about “movement strategy” or “acceptable coalition-building” from people who, three years ago, barely knew where Palestine was, had no sustained engagement with the issue, and only discovered it once it became morally and culturally salient within progressive discours. Let’s also keep in mind that Islamophobia is far more tolerated within liberal and even left-wing spaces, while accusations of anti-semitism trigger immediate institutional panic and moral policing. Organizations like the DSA have repeatedly shown they are willing to accommodate Zionists or people fundamentally opposed to BDS and full arms embargoes, while treating anti-Zionism itself as something that must constantly be moderated, clarified, or made electorally respectable.